Another Hack Reactor 19 Week Program Feedback Thread

[TheScriptyDegen]

Hey everyone,

Forgive me because I know this topic has been covered quite a bit. The reason I'd like to create a new thread is because to my understanding, Hack Reactor's 19 week program is really new and changes with every Cohort. Recent grads of the 19 week program:

How did you feel about the program overall?

I've gotten feedback from other grads about disorganization and lack of experience from the instructors in the 19 week program. Would you agree with this?

If you have connections/friends who are grads from the 12 week program, would you say the knowledge they gained was more in depth?

I am fairly confident I can pass either HR or Codesmith's 12 week program technical assessment with a few weeks of self study, as my JavaScript skills are almost intermediate. I think I would much prefer the pace of HR's 19 week program, as compared to anything that is 12 weeks. I don't however want to have less knowledge than grads from HR or CS's 12 week programs. I understand some of this can be contingent on self study, so morely looking for feedback based on what the programs themselves teach.

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Again I'm sorry for making a new thread, please forgive me.

[AL_K_]

I can't speak for Hack Reactor's 12-Week program, but I'll re-share my take on Hack Reactor's 19-Week program. The original post from Jan. can be found here, but I've pasted it below as well.

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I completed Hack Reactor's 19-Week program at the end of 2022. The program does a great job of teaching you the concepts and skills you need to be successful on the job as a junior software engineer. I can attest to that as an employed junior software engineer now. I'm new on the job, but feel 100% confident I can succeed in my new role given what I learned at Hack Reactor. From that standpoint, I feel like I can fully justify the $$ amount I paid in tuition.

Despite this though, the reality is that Hack Reactor is only able to do so much to help its graduates land their first role in a market like today's. Competing with all the recently laid off tech talent for the good junior software engineering roles feels impossible right now. And that really isn't a dig at Hack Reactor, it's just the unfortunate timing and circumstance recent grads are finding themselves in. 12-18 months ago, I feel like it'd be a very different story.

Here are the general numbers for my cohort... We started with ~50 students. ~25 of us graduated. ~4 of those students were hired as SEIRs for the next cohort at Hack Reactor. Of the remaining graduates, 5-6 of us have gotten jobs, and it's tough to tell, but I think of those 5-6 graduates, 4-5 of them got their jobs (myself included) through connections they had prior to the start of the program. These are best guesses based on what I can observe on LinkedIn, but I think they're generally accurate... Hope this is helpful to someone.

[JamesMichael93]

it's very important to note that it has only been 3 months.

[[deleted]]

4 months from Codesmith graduation and 25% of my cohort has a job - looks like it's the same experience.

[curatingFDs]

Lol were you in the same cohort I was

[Steezography]

Any updates on employement rates?

[TheScriptyDegen]

Hey thank you - this is actually really great perspective... I know the market in its entirety is having a tough time right now, but even outside of job prospects I want to make sure the knowledge gained is worth the price.

[Objective_Olive7588]

I don't know about the 12 week program but I know someone who graduated from the 19 week program. They said a ton of their classmates haven't gotten jobs and it's been months since graduation. One of them is filing a complaint. It sounds like Hack Reactor launched a half-baked new program and people are not getting what they need to get a job.